Grok goes Global with KSA: Announcing our landmark partnership with Saudi Arabia

X ^ | 11/19/2025 | Xai

[SmokingJoe]

Grok goes Global with KSA: Announcing our landmark partnership with Saudi Arabia and @HUMAINAI—the first time a country adopts Grok at scale. xAI will build a new generation of hyperscale GPU data centers in the Kingdom, deploying Grok nationwide.

[SmokingJoe]

Musk is going all out in the AI war.

[RandFan]

It’ll be heavily censored and tailored .... He Grokipedia wont be welcome will it

[bigbob]

Grok is incredible. He’s winning.

No lack of energy or money to buy same in KSA. Maybe this will stop some of the sniveling about how evil AI is.

[Dr. Sivana]

How are they going to get needed water for the data centers. It is enough of an isue here in AZ.

[SmokingJoe]

Grok:
Saudi Arabia can support massive AI data centers without unsustainable water strain by leveraging its desalination dominance, cheap/renewable energy for advanced cooling, and explicit focus on water-efficient (often water-free) designs in its AI infrastructure push.

[GOPJ]

AI has a place...

[Dr. Sivana]

Saudi Arabia can support massive AI data centers without unsustainable water strain by leveraging its desalination dominance, cheap/renewable energy for advanced cooling, and explicit focus on water-efficient (often water-free) designs in its AI infrastructure push.

I didn’t know they were doing so well in desalination. I wonder why they import asparagus from AZ? Yes, there are water free ways to cool a large data center, but they aren’t cheap, and it doesn’t help to be in a hot climate to start. Polievre of the Canadian conservatives pushes Canada for data centers because of a natural cold temp AND fresh water.

[SmokingJoe]

Grok:

Saudi Arabia overwhelmingly dominates the global desalination industry as of late 2025.
Key Reasons and Metrics
Largest installed capacity — Saudi Arabia produces approximately 20–25% of the world’s desalinated water, with a total operational capacity exceeding 7–8 million cubic meters per day (aiming for 8.5 million m³/day by end-2025). This far surpasses any other nation.

[Dr. Sivana]

That’s 2 billion gallons a day. Impressive. The data center would be happy with 5 million, so they can swing it, as long as they stay near the coasts.